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    RMS Quetta was an iron-hulled steamship that was built in Scotland in 1881 and wrecked with great loss of life in the Torres Strait in 1890. She was operated...
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    School, Quetta Hanna Lake Askari Park Jinnah Road Quetta in 1880 2008 Ziarat earthquake List of people from Quetta Balochi cuisine Quetta hut RMS Quetta Quetta...
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  • film RMS Quetta, a merchant ship that wrecked in 1890 All pages with titles beginning with Quetta All pages with titles containing Quetta Quetta Gladiators...
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    was built as a memorial to the 134 lives lost in the shipwreck of the RMS Quetta on 28 February 1890. The church was designed in 1892–1893 by architect...
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  • After thirty-six years' service in the Bank, he left for England by the RMS Quetta, in February 1890, accompanied by his wife, and on the 28th of the month...
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    maritime disasters, this being the tragic sinking of the RMS Quetta.  The passenger ship Quetta, struck an uncharted rock in the Adolphus Channel, just...
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    A shipping disaster to a vessel in this service occurred in 1890 when RMS Quetta struck an uncharted reef in the Strait and sank in five minutes with the...
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  • Apr 12 George III Shipwreck Cape York, Queensland 133 1890 Feb 28 The RMS Quetta, sank in around 3 minutes, with the loss of 134 of her 292 passengers...
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    Shoals and Georges Bank and was not seen again. 136 1890  United Kingdom RMS Quetta – was a British-India Steam Navigation Company ship on a regular route...
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    Whish took his leave by setting out for England. He was aboard the fated RMS Quetta on the day it sank in the Torres Strait. His wife Anne perished with him;...
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    residence was called Langlands. Reuben and his wife Jane were drowned in the RMS Quetta disaster in 1890. The house has subsequently been extensively renovated...
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    seafarers, for example, Jardine aided the survivors of the shipwreck of RMS Quetta in 1890. Jardine was buried in the south area of the Somerset Grave Site...
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  • until 1873. John Watson and his wife, Elizabeth Selim, died when the RMS Quetta was wrecked on the Far North Queensland coast in 1890. The Watsons had...
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    seafarers, for example, Jardine aided the survivors of the shipwreck of RMS Quetta in 1890. The pearl diving industry was important to the Queensland economy...
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  • Mary Louisa (daughter of Queensland Premier Robert Mackenzie) on the RMS Quetta in 1890 Colin Archer 1832–1921 1853–1861 Became a successful shipbuilder...
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    1890 as RMS Quetta was wrecked off Queensland on her way to Thursday Island. His mother, Mrs Sophia E. Hall, paid for the church. The Quetta window on...
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    prominent and respected figures in the region after the shipwreck of the RMS Quetta in 1890. This ship, carrying 292 people, hit an uncharted rock off Albany...
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    August 1803 A sloop that ran aground on the Wreck Reefs, along with Cato. RMS Quetta  United Kingdom 28 February 1890 A merchant ship that struck a rock off...
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    when RMS Quetta was wrecked off Queensland on her way to Thursday Island. His mother, Mrs Sophia E. Hall, paid for the church to be built. The Quetta window...
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    intersection. Nicklin and his wife Jane Lahey drowned in February 1890, when the RMS Quetta sank in Torres Strait, en route to England. Their daughter Alice, was...
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  • house and its grounds. (Nicklin and his wife died in the wreck of the RMS Quetta in 1890). Thomas Connah and William Brookes bought a large block of land...
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  • grandfather, George Prentice (aged 70), died the year before his birth when the RMS Quetta was wrecked on the Far North Queensland coast in 1890. He attended the...
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  • January – The University of Tasmania opens 28 February – The steamship RMS Quetta sinks off Cape York Peninsula, killing 133 2 October – Fire destroys buildings...
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    (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract...
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    Urquhart played a major role in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked RMS Quetta. Urquhart was transferred to the civilian Queensland Police service in...
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    sliding since 1886, or the loss of a silver consignment on the ill-fated RMS Quetta. In 1947 Percy Kean Jnr. commissioned a mining engineer, Archibald Woodville...
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    In 1890 he was one of the organisers of the rescue of survivors from RMS Quetta. He visited England in 1902, and on his return continued his work until...
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    Britannic laid up alongside the unfinished RMS Cedric, just before being scrapped...
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    The crew were picked up by the ship Argyle, also bound Sydney to India. RMS Quetta, an iron steamship of 3,484 GRT that was built at Dumbarton, Scotland...
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    regions further west. On the night of 28 February 1890, the Royal Mail Ship RMS Quetta struck a rock and sank in Adolphus Channel, sending 134 of her passengers...
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